Last month, American scientists began work on a project aimed at improving the ability to predict tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Now I have the ability to say, I've got a new class, I can create instances of a line segment, and it's elements are themselves instances of points. OK?

这就是我们要讲模块化的地方了，现在我可以说，我创建了一个新类，我可以创建线段的实例了,这些实例的元素？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well, a smile is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to do something.

笑就是我们表达,肉体某项能力的一种方式

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Other symptoms include a loss of the ability to move normally or a loss of balance.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The ability of an atom to attract electrons, and in particular, in a covalent bond.

原子对电子的吸引能力，特别是在共价键中。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The findings suggest that the human brain has developed this special ability as a survival method.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

And if you were suddenly stripped of your ability to make generalizations, you'd be at a loss.

如果你突然失去了,归纳的能力，你就会一头无绪。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

You do have the ability to practice with a lot more freedom here I feel.

我觉得在信仰穆斯林时,这里确实能够有更多的自由。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The researchers found a link between swearing and an increased ability to deal with pain.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

You might say--or a good part of-- it is our ability to process information.

你们可能都会说，或者大部分人会说-,因为我们有处理信息的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And studies have found that it helps protect against a decrease in mental ability.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

D-A-V-I-D Well, if I've got a five-letter word like D-A-V-I-D, well, that's like five bytes and yet we only have the ability thus far in this class to return one thing at a time I can't return five bytes to you, but wait a minute, those bytes by nature of a computer are just stored in RAM.

好的，如果有5个字母的单词，如，那是5个字节,我们只能返回一个东西,而不能返回5个字节，等一下，这些字节被计算机本能地,存储在内存中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That same year,doctors discovered a deadly brain tumor, which limited his ability to work.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

We are beings for whom the exercise of the will is a preeminent feature and much of our happiness as human beings depends upon our capacity to exercise our will and our ability for choice.

作为人，意愿的运用是,一种卓越的特性，我们作为人大多数的幸福感,取决于我们运用,意愿和能力来选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Phase four means that a virus has gained the ability to cause community-level outbreaks.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A number of politicians did not believe he had the ability to be president.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

And then, finally, the last tactical skill that you're going to get out of this course is you're going to have the ability to map scientific problems into a computational frame.

接下来，你们将带着走出这个课堂的,最后一个技能是,你们将学会,把科学问题,转换进计算机的框架之内。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind immediately is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Well it turns out a bunch of years ago people just decided that if we have the ability to express numbers and we actually care about expressing letters of the alphabet, well we just need some kind of mapping between one and the other, ASCII and so thus was born what's generally called the ASCII.

结果证实，数年前,人们觉得如果我们,有数字表达能力,而我们真正在乎其实是字符的表达，那么我们就需要数字和字符的某种对应关系，于是就有了俗称的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The cells slowly lose their ability to produce a chemical called dopamine.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

I know it looks like a simple and silly little example, but at the moment, I still have the ability to go in and change the values of the parameters by that little definition.

很简单的有点儿蠢的例子,但是现在，我还是可以通过，一个简单的定义声明，来进去改变参数的值,这样就没意义了,这是因为我并没有用一些。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Zora Neale Hurston was known for her ability to tell a story.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Now I have the ability to create a loop, that is, to reuse the same pieces of code over and over again as I go around.

现在我们已经学会如何创建循环了，也就是，重复的一遍又一遍的,执行同一片代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I think Afghanistan is still winnable, in the sense of our ability to ensure that it is not a launching pad for attacks against North America.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Dehydration limits a person's ability to work and think.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

But I imagine that after a period, there'd be this-- Well, humans have this ability to look down on their experiences, or step back from their experiences, and assess them.

但我想经过一段时间后-,人类有能力审视自己的体验，或从体验中抽身而出加以评估。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of the things we said last time was, with that set of things, the ability to give values-- sorry, to give names to values-- the ability to make decisions, the ability to loop as a function of that, the ability get things in and out, we said that that actually gave us a language we said was Turing-complete.

上次我们和以上内容一起说过，我们可以赋值--抱歉,为数值命名--可以做出判断决定-,并且据此进行循环,可以输入输出数据,我们说拥有这些功能的语言,是图灵完备的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选